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I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there’s no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.

Karl Lagerfeld

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
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Apart Bed Before Fall Hour House Midnight Nine Seven Sleep Wake
During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.
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Actresses Age Career Dem During Finally Goden Star Start Struggle Unattractive
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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Anything Fashion Like Merely Poetry State Suggest
I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there’s no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.
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Amateurs Hate People Unprofessional
The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
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Being Face Identity Modelling Ned One People Perfect Second Secret
Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
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Before Last Stage Tacky Trendy
When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.
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Carried Challenge Complan Designer Dress Only Profession Say
I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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Criticize Everything Live Open Over Start Times
If you’re not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
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Another Dialogue Fashion Job Non Ready Stop
Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman’s jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
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Bag Balck Camellia Chain Chanel Compose Country Doorman Element Jacket Only Pearl Quite Shoe Toes
Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans – it’s up to you.
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Cheap Cloth Everyone Inexpensive Look never Rich Today Use Word
What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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Chanel Coco Done Hate never
The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
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Body Brain Builder Kind Muscle
Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
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Attempt Look Make Nothing Older Young
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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Capture Forever Gone Impossible Moment Photograph Reproduce
Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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Already Because Excite Mix Own Really Something Yet

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